.coreboard ,. AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City at Cleveland 6. SEATTLE, inc. * ROIT 1 Minnesota at WYORK 3, OAKLAND, inc. Chicago 1. Tampa Bay at BOSTON 3, ANAHEIM, inc. Toronto O Baltimore at NATIONAL LEAGUE TEXAS. inc FLORIDA 5, Montreal 3 {Game 1: FLORiDA 4. Montreal 0 (Game 2, Houston 6. PITTSBURGH 3 ATLANTA 2. New York 1 St. Loucisat CHICAGO. inc. Cncnnat at SAN DiEGO, inc. n - ,- . L Yb H 4 A1... m ?l . , _ , Y C !' l Tracking 'M' recruits Ste e Bel of The Pank has confirmed that an bsketb recruting taet Arthur Johnson \ebl committd t o MisouiMciiicnno foeusonpots nde ron nd TJ. Cumming. Wednesday September 22, 1999 9 Around the Horn *Jayne' - drcam. beating fter returning home from his Badgers' 17-12 loss to 'incinnati. Ron Dayrie had prob- lems. ie walked to his apartment door and dropped the keys on the threshold. He sighed. Man, whats wrong with me?, he thought. I used to be The Man. I was *pposed to cone here and take these guys places. He looked at the Rose Bowl ring on his finger. He took it off to look at it. Looks like this is the on/v one o fthese 1 get. He dropped it. Sigh. He picked up the football he had been carrying around, to get a better feel for it. He tucked it under his arm and went for a walk. He had no where in particular to go, Stickers open Big Ten season at State By Michael Kern The No. 12 Michigan field hockey team kicks off Big Tn play tonight in Spartan Stadiutm aainst in-state ri al No. I Michigan State "We get really pumped up for games like this because of thai natural riahr' sophomore Catherinc Foreman said. "It's rcaly important that wxe wiin this gamc because the liTln is go mg to be so close this xear.,' This y ear's miatchup is critical for both teams, dlue to their high rankings and because it start> the Bigz Tn season The Spartais rolled oxer Central Micehugan last Saturday, 7-i, improxving their winnng streak to three games and upping their record to 6- 1 While the Wolxerines have relied on their veteran defense this season to w in close Uames, Michigan State has been keyed to victory by an offense that has recorded 29 goals in just seven games. Central to the Michigoan State attack are two players that travel to IEast Lansing from across the ocean. Golfers re p41r Sophomore midfielder Sanne xan Nouhuys and sophomore forward Maleen Tlip - both from The Netherlands are Michian State's twxo leading scorers this season. "(oreign players) a1e becoming the trend in the Big Ten" said Fioreman, wxho hails for- ustralia. "It's seems like cecry team in the 1 Ten has one' \Van Notihuy has alrcady scored 10 times this s 'ason to lead the team. And Tuip's fixve goals and six assists make her the team's second-heading scorer. "O(ur defense is strong because we are rettrningic evrone fronm last year, senior midfielder I rca Wicdder said. "We're reacy for them Michigan x won 3- 1 on the road against Syracuse on Sunday, improving to 4-3 The Wolerines hope that they can carry over the momentum of that victory to tonight's game. "It really got our confidence back up,- Widder said "Ihe weekend before (against James Madison and 'Virginia) was really tough, but we're back on track now" are for State d found himself Camp Randall Stadium. lie dropped the foot- ball. Man Picking it up, he thought about Michigan, this week's opponent. He remembered the Badgers' two sses to the olverines since he had been at Wisconsin He had Rick Freeman FTEEFAN O TEPREss _i e . Id( Alp" ;,7 By Jodie Kaufman Daily Sports Writer The Michigan women'st ished I10th this weekend Northern Invitational a Coach Kathv Teichcrt sai tions were great, but the1 play as well as I thought x( T-he Wolxerines scored- holes, but Bess Bowers Wicks had the most succes for 28th place with a tota Wicks finished in 38th place with a three-day total of 238. golf team fin- Sophomore Stephanie Bezilla said, in the Lady "the team has definitely made strides t Wisconsin. since last year you can tell all of us have d, "the condi- worked really hard." The team complet- team did not ' ed the tournament with a total of 966 e'd play." comprised of scores 325, 324. 317. high oi many Michigan is currently qualifyifig for and IeAnna the Mary Fossumi Invitational s. Bowers tied Tournament, this weekend in East al of 236 and Lansing. Catherine Foreman (right) knows firsthand the intensity of the Michigan-Michigan State rivalry. Tonights match at Spartan Stadium will kick off the Big Ten season for the Wolverines. been impotent in each one. He remem- bered his ankle hurt in 1997, and he had an ear infection last year. lie had amt~assed a total of 53 yards in last year's game, and the papers ate him up. :He imagined what a Heisman with his name on it would look like. He jjagined standing up, all proud at the owntown Athletic Club and hearing the words "From the University of Wisconsin, Ron Dayne." ;Instead, he just heard: "Hey Ron." 'Am I s/eepwalking? he thought to hitnself. He heard it again, authoritative arid deep. "Down here." He walked toward the voice "Man, why you beating yourself up?" ofigure asked. "You have to believe ' 11 ourself" By now Ron was standing next to him. "Who are you?" he asked. "Never mind. We don't have time for that. You want to finally beat Michigan, rightt? You might not leave here with a Hpisman, you might not get another Big Ten ring, but you want to beat those gys, don't you? tYou want more than that one guy's rcbrd you beat Saturday, right?" * "Uhhh ... yeah." SSon, when I was your age, I hated Tichigan as much as you do now. I wated to beat them so bad I could taste it, wanted to beat them so- ,-Who'd you play for?" w'Hey I said we don't have time. Do you want to beat them or do you want to-use some lame excuse again?" "Hey man, I was dizzy, My ear hurt. And4 my ankle..." " "Listen, Ron. You may not know who I , but I know who you are. Old run- ning backs, we look out for each other. A'Id Ron, I want you to beat Michigan. I did it three times in my four years." "Uh, yeah, but ..." "Ron. No buts. You're big enough to go through people, but man. r See FREEMAN, Page 10 Blue hocke y first in coaches' poll; writers disagree By Stephanie Offen Daily Sports Writer DETROll I houuh conference play doesn't begin until October, the (CHA officially dropped the puck on the 1999 season vesterdax at Joe Louis Arena for its annual neclia press con- ference. Tle Wolvcrines. wxho claimed the CCHA tournament championship last season, stood atop this year's coaches poll. time votes ahead of last year's CC1-A regular-season champion, Michigan State. But the Spartans capture the jour- nalists' attention, barely beatinu out Michigan for first place in the nedia poll. he Wolxcrincs and Spartans switched spots at the top, while Notre Dame and Ohio State f1ip-flopped at the tfur aind fixe spots. 'hile the niedia and the coaches appeared to be oii the same page iII their predictions of this season's out- come, the coaches were quick to stress that the competitixve nature of the con- fretnce means that a variety of teams could succeed. "You could spend four hours com- pl~ing the poll or you could spend f'otur days working on it," Notre Dam head coach Dave Poulin said. 'That's how tough this league is apd that's ihow coipetitive things arc. And it's that conmpetitive combina- tion of talented teatlms that has helped the C HA define itself as one o the nation's most highly regarded and respected conferences. "T'his is a very strong and competi- tixe leatue." Western Michigran coach J.m11 Culhane said. "From top to bot- tom, it is difficult to win a regular sea- son or playoff championship. When we play outside our league, our perfor-. mances indicate that we are the pre- mier league in college hockey" Changing times: With the expansion of the ('CHA to include Nebraska- Omaha, the league will experience scheduling changes. Each ('CIA team was put in a clus- ter, and will play each team in its clus- ter four times. Michigan's group includes Ohio State, Bowling Green and Miami. "This won't have a big bearing on us," Michigani coach Red Berenson said. "But it could have a bearing on the overall schedule. We play Ohio State, Miami and Bovling Green four times, and another school could play weaker teams and have an advantage with a weaker schedule." Since Michigan will only play some teams twice, the Wolverines will not receive home-ice advantage against certain schools. Michigan opens its CCHA schedule facing Notre Dame in South Bend for a two-game series. But the Fighting Irish will not travel to Yost at all this season. The expansion of the conference will also change the CCH IA pLayoffs at the end of the season. Instead of the eight-team playoff format fromin previ- ous seasons, two more teams will be added to the race. The top f'ive teams in the conference will receive home-ice advantage. The top three remaining seeds will get a second- round bye, while the lowest two seeds will compete in a play-in game. Four-man system: This season the CCIIA is adding a fourth referee for select games only. Under this system there will'be two referees and two linesmen. With four officials, presumably, they will be able to see more of the ice and more of the action -- especially the physical, behind-the- play scrums that develop when the refer- ce has turned his back and skated down' the ice. 'he system will be implemented in just 25 games, which includes nonconfeir ence matChups. 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